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Environmental History of Oceanic Islands

Environmental History of Oceanic Islands
Environmental History of Oceanic Islands: Natural and Human Impacts on the Vegetation of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) Archipelago by Tod F. Stuessy
English | EPUB| 2020 | 345 Pages | ISBN : 303047870X | 143.8 MB
The Juan Fernández Archipelago is located in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile at 33° S latitude. Robinson Crusoe Island is 667 km from the continent and approximately four million years old; Alejandro Selkirk Island is an additional 181 km west and only one million years old. The natural impacts of subsidence and erosion have shaped the landscapes of these islands, resulting in progressive changes to their subtropical vegetation.

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Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation The Dynamics of Firms and Industries

Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation The Dynamics of Firms and Industries
Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: The Dynamics of Firms and Industries by Enrico Santarelli
English | PDF | 2006 | 296 Pages | ISBN : 0387288686 | 39.7 MB
Entrepreneurship, Growth and Innovation provides comprehensive insight into the economics of entrepreneurship, claiming that this recently established discipline should establish a framework of analysis that integrates the understanding of the determinants and the effects of both entrepreneurship and innovation without neglecting the functioning of the inducement mechanisms. For this purpose, the book combines theoretical prescriptions and international empirical evidence. Contributions by some of the best known scholars in the field of the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation investigate whether the interrelationships between the forces that affect firm and industry dynamics and ultimately determine economic growth are subject to change across countries and over time. The analysis of different national cases puts forward that the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth via innovation is shaped by the context of country-specific institutions and industries, thereby providing hints for industrial and innovation policy.

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English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages

English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages
Jennifer C. Ward, "English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages"
English | 1995 | pages: 206 | ISBN: 0582059658, 1138836362 | PDF | 4,3 mb
This vivid and pioneering study illuminates the different roles played in late medieval society by noblewomen - the most substantial group of women to survive as individuals in medieval documents. They emerge (despite limited political opportunities) as figures of consequence themselves in a landowning society through estate management in their husbands' frequent absences, and through hospitality, patronage and affinity.

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England's Last War Against France Fighting Vichy 1940-1942

England's Last War Against France Fighting Vichy 1940-1942
Colin Smith, "England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942"
English | ISBN: 0297852183 | 2009 | 490 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The last shots fired between England and France weren't during the Napoleonic Age, but rather during World War II, when Vichy, France was left unoccupied by the Nazi regime in return for their collaboration. For more than two years, from the summer of 1940 through November of 1942, British forces engaged the Vichy French on land, sea and air. Thousands of lives were lost, and the history of this conflict was buried-until now. Through painstaking historical research, historian Colin Smith throws back the veil of secrecy to detail this last bloody conflict between modern Europe's great powers.

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Enemy Archives Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement - Selections from the Secret

Enemy Archives Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement - Selections from the Secret
Volodymyr Viatrovych, "Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement - Selections from the Secret "
English | ISBN: 0228014662 | 2023 | 1048 pages | EPUB, PDF | 15 MB + 18 MB
As Russia wages a twenty-first-century war against the very existence of a Ukrainian state and nation, reanimating Soviet-era propaganda that portrayed Ukrainians as Nazi collaborators and fascists, the experiences of the Ukrainian nationalist underground before, during, and after the Second World War gain new significance. While engaged in a decades-long struggle against the Ukrainian nationalist movement and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and lasting into the mid-1950s, Soviet counterinsurgency forces accumulated a comprehensive and extensive archive of documents captured from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the UPA. Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk have curated and carefully annotated a selection of these documents in Enemy Archives, providing primary sources the Soviet authorities collected and deemed useful for better understanding their opponents and so securing their destruction, a campaign that ultimately failed.The documents seized from the insurgents and Soviet analyses of them shed light on a wide range of experiences in the underground: how the movement struggled to maintain discipline and morale, how it dealt with suspected informers, and how it resisted the ruthless Soviet state, laying the foundations for the continuing Ukrainian struggle against foreign domination.

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Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd Edition

Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd Edition
John L. Capinera, "Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd Edition"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1402062427 | 4598 pages | True PDF | 128 MB
The Encyclopedia of Entomology provides a detailed, global overview of insects and their close relatives, including taxonomy, behavior, ecology, physiology, history, and management. It covers all the major groups of arthropods, as well as many important families and individual species. The encyclopedia also covers physiology, genetics, ecology, behavior, insect relationships with people, medical entomology, and pest management.

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Emotion in Discourse

Emotion in Discourse
Emotion in Discourse By J. Lachlan Mackenzie (editor), Laura Alba-Juez (editor)
2019 | 409 Pages | ISBN: 9027202397 | PDF | 7 MB
Interest in human emotion no longer equates to unscientific speculation. 21st-century humanities scholars are paying serious attention to our capacity to express emotions and giving rigorous explanations of affect in language. We are unquestionably witnessing an 'emotional turn' not only in linguistics, but also in other fields of scientific research.Emotion in Discourse follows from and reflects on this scholarly awakening to the world of emotion, and in particular, to its intricate relationship with human language. The book presents both the state of the art and the latest research in an effort to unravel the various workings of the expression of emotion in discourse. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, for emotion is a multifarious phenomenon whose functions in language are enlightened by such other disciplines as psychology, neurology, or communication studies. The volume shows not only how emotion manifests at different linguistic levels, but also how it relates to aspects like linguistic appraisal, emotional intelligence or humor, as well as covering its occurrence in various genres, including scientific discourse. As such, the book contributes to an emerging interdisciplinary field which could be labeled "emotionology", transcending previous linguistic work and providing an updated characterization of how emotion functions in human discourse.

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